If you are a fisheries professional or aspire to be one, AFS is THE society that supports your career and passion for fisheries. If you have not yet renewed your membership for 2024, your AFS membership is now expired. Renewals provide the support we need to provide the resources and tools that help our members CONNECT, ADVANCE, and SAVE!  You can renew quickly and easily online or by contacting the Membership Department at membership@fisheries.org.  

Take advantage of early registration rates by registering now for the 2024 World Fisheries Congress, March 3-7, in Seattle, Washington. Early registration rates end on January 31, 2024. And don't forget to check out the variety of training workshops being offered on Sunday, March 3.

Session proposal submission is now open for the 2024 Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawai'i, September 15-19. Submit your ideas for symposia, innovative sessions, and continuing education courses by February 23, 2024.

As a follow-up to a Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources hearing titled "Examining the Biden Administration’s Efforts to Eliminate the Pacific Northwest’s Clean Energy Production," AFS submitted comments for inclusion in the record. Noting that some Snake River salmon populations are currently hovering on the brink of extinction and action is urgently needed, the comments cited the 2022 AFS policy statement on Snake River dams urging removal of the four dams to help recover at-risk populations of salmon and steelhead.

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up Alaska v. United States, an effort to reverse EPA’s veto of the proposed Pebble copper and gold mine in the pristine Bristol Bay watershed, home to one of the world’s premier salmon fisheries. In January 2023, the EPA exercised its authority to block the project via Section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act, a portion of the law that allows the agency to bar areas from being used as disposal sites.

This is your last chance to purchase some of our most popular titles at greatly reduce prices. Our annual Year-End Book Sale ends January 15, 2024.

Check out our newest title The Soft-Shell Clam Mya arenaria: Biology, Fisheries, and Mariculture. This book assembles and synthesizes published data on the clam to assist researchers and students studying the organism and its role in its ecosystem, as well as facilitating efforts at managing its fishery and enabling mariculture.

The Big Hole River, Montana, contains the only remaining native population of Arctic Grayling in the lower 48 states. This laboratory study shows that higher average water temperatures that accompany climate change and other environmental perturbations will adversely affect the stress and future survival of this population.

The American Fisheries Society seeks a scientist to serve as an editor of North American Journal of Management (NAJFM). Editor must be committed to fast-paced deadlines, and would be appointed for a three-year renewable term. Join our team or nominate a highly qualified colleague!

This year, the Equal Opportunities Section was able to bestow more travel awards to deserving, talented students than we have in the past due to the gracious support of American Fisheries Society members. The Equal Opportunities Section would like to highlight our talented awardees this year and give the readership a chance to learn more about the students behind the awards.

Reservoirs in the Mississippi River basin are facing three momentous threats. The first two, aging and climate change, are relatively slow moving and their signal can be hard to discern given their stretched temporal scales. The third, species invasions, is faster paced and discernable within shorter temporal scales and restricted spatial scales. Aging and climate directly affect reservoir environments and indirectly affect their biotic communities.